That could not work, as if PGP is used to sign messages, each message has its own distinct signature. One could design a scheme by which signatures are kept separate and fetchable on request only, but it would create a lot of problems for managing these signatures separate, and there is a risk that a message could not be validated if the signature later disappear. This may happen for example, while re-examining archived messages at the recipient end. Overall, I think it is much simpler that PGP-signed messages contain each its signature. +----and here the quote ends----+ Actually pgp 6.5.1x produce quite small signatures, so you should not have any
* On 04-03-00 at 10:44 François Pinard (pinard@iro.umontreal.ca) wrote: +----Here quoted text begins----+ problems with them, I have set up my mail client not to sign any mail going to the mailing lists I am subscribed to - just sign my personal mail. But the problem is that stegnos1 was not just signing the messages, but posting the public key with each one, the public key is quite a big thingie, so that problem is now fixed as you see (he no longer posts the key - It was the mailer who was automatically attaching the key. Bo¹tjan -- Bo¹tjan Müller [NEONATUS], NEONATUS@bigfoot.com, http://surf.to/NEONATUS RSA id: 0x90178DBD, ICQ #:7506644, PGP key: finger neonatus@gimp.thz.net GEEK CODE = PGP key Registered Linux User #87774, Powered by SuSE Linux 6.2 Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/